Four-dimensional conserved topological charge vectors in plasmonic quasicrystals

作     者：Tsesses, Shai Dreher, Pascal Janoschka, David Neuhaus, Alexander Cohen, Kobi Meiler, Tim C. Bucher, Tomer Sapir, Shay Frank, Bettina Davis, Timothy J. Meyer Zu Heringdorf, Frank Giessen, Harald Bartal, Guy 

作者机构：rew and Erna Viterbi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Haifa Israel Department of Physics MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge MA United States Faculty of Physics and Center for Nanointegration University of Duisburg-Essen Duisburg-Essen (CENIDE) Duisburg Germany 4th Physics Institute Research Center SCoPE Integrated Quantum Science and Technology Center University of Stuttgart Stuttgart Germany Centre for Disruptive Photonic Technologies and School of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Nanyang Technological University Singapore Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Weitzmann Institute of Science Rehovot Israel School of Physics University of Melbourne Parkville VIC Australia 

出 版 物：《Science (New York, N.Y.)》 (Science)

年 卷 期：2025年第387卷第6734期

页      面：644-648页

学科分类：07[理学] 08[工学] 

摘      要：According to Noether s theorem, symmetries in a physical system are intertwined with conserved quantities. These symmetries often determine the system topology, which is made ever more complex with increased dimensionality. Quasicrystals have neither translational nor global rotational symmetry, yet they intrinsically inhabit a higher-dimensional space in which symmetry resurfaces. Here, we discovered topological charge vectors in four dimensions (4D) that govern the real-space topology of 2D quasicrystals and reveal their inherent conservation laws. We demonstrate control over the topology in pentagonal plasmonic quasilattices, mapped by both phase-resolved and time-domain near-field microscopy, showing that their temporal evolution continuously tunes the 2D projections of their distinct 4D topologies. Our work provides a route to experimentally probe the thermodynamic properties of quasicrystals and topological physics in 4D and above.